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Tom House revels in exciting time for sports world

As Tom House describes it, he was in the right place at the right time.

A lefthander who pitched for eight years in the major leagues in the 1970s, House’s career ended just as the technology and analytics revolutions began to arrive in baseball in the 1980s.

House embraced the rise of biomechanical analysis and along with Craig Wright wrote “The Diamond Appraised,” which, along with

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